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Far too often, the mainstream entertainment press spends more time on coming up with horrible punny headlines for their movie reviews and not enough time critiquing the actual film. The Onion, however, does it right. In their new video review of the second installment of the...

When stand-up comedy is great, it could transcend space and time; you don't want it to end and you're thinking and laughing in ways you never have before. But when it's bad and that social contract that keeps us in our seats prevents from just walking, you can start to feel like...

Earlier today The Onion's CEO Steve Hannah issued an apology for an Oscars-night tweet from the satirical newspaper's official Twitter feed, wherein 9-year-old actress Quvenzhané Wallis (nominated in the lead actress category for her work in Beasts of the Southern Wild) was...

UPDATE: 2:10 pm EST -- The Onion has apologized. The full statement is below:
On behalf of The Onion, I offer my personal apology to Quvenzhané Wallis and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the tweet that was circulated last night during the Oscars. It...

Over the weekend, we introduced you to Thing X. In short, it's something of nebulous nature on which former staffers from The Onion are working. You should go here and learn all about it-- unless you want to do things backwards. If that's the case, you should first peep this...

You know how sometimes you watch something so bizarre and absurd that your only reaction is to laugh uncontrollably? Well, if you're like me, you'll do the same after peeping this just-released video promoting Thing X, or more specifically, ThingX.com, which is something created...

Each week, we’ve been featuring a new episode of Stand Down, the A.V. Club’s new animated series, wherein a comedian tells a story about a terrible time in their career. This week, Tig Notaro tells a chilling story of onstage bombing and near death. It’s not for the faint...

In the latest episode of the AV Club's weekly animated series Stand Down, podcast pioneer, super stand-up comedian and Conan O'Brien's warm-up comic, Jimmy Pardo regales us with a story about a performance he once gave at a Naval base. As is the case in all of Stand Down...

In the third installment of the A.V. Club's weekly series Stand Down, wherein a well-loved comedian relates a story about a time they totally ate shit, Reggie Watts digs up a terrible memory born in Philadelphia. Check it out below!
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